Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-10-27
Coal is in demand.
Snow Monday morning.

SOai IS III demand.
Snow Monday morning.
Go to G. w. Friend for your candy.
Lots of travelling men in town Sunday
Best home made candy at G. W.
Friends.
The hotel registers are filing rapidly
this week.
Con McGreevy came down from Quick
vile Sunday.
Mr. G. n. Hunter called at this office
last Monday.
W. T. S. May, Esq. of Oberlin, is at.
tending court here this week
E. A. McMath, Esq, of Grainfeld. was
seen on our streets on Monday evening
Full report of the proceedings Of the
District Court of the county will be pub
lished IN nest weeks CAT.
E. S. Disbrow, of Gem. Kansas. leaves
for Trenton, Nebr., to be gone for the
winter The CAT follows him.
j. A. Jeffries, Jr, OF Hiawatha Kan.
who is visiting friends in this county
made this Office a pleasant call one day
this week.
We understand that the Colby dram
attic club are making an effort to produce
another play. Watch the CAT for theil
announcements
Wilson & Clark, CT 5-33, Rawlins Co.,
shipped three car loads of broom corn to
Chicago which were loaded at Colby on
Wednesday last.
Will the readers of the CAT send US
such items of interest as happen in theil
neighborhoods? We would be pleased
to have items for publication from each
school district in the county.
Judge L. K. Pratt, of Norton, presid
ing judge of this judicial district, arriv
ed from Sherman county on Saturday
evening last Judge Pratt held court or
Monday and Tuesday, disposing of the
business before the court on those days
We learn that by order of the post Of
fee department at Washington, the pos
Office at Cumberland this county has beer
discontinued on the ground that pos
Office is not longer needed at that place
All government property has been moved
from there to Otterbourne and all mai
| for Cumberland will be hereafter sent tC
Otterbourne and will be distributed a,
| that office
The Colby CAT comes to our table this
week with a double supplement. 1t al
ways was live energetic paper. and We
| are pleased to see its success. Go il
Tom.-Carlisle Journal
We are going it. Some eastern paper
a short time ago. we don't know its
name, but saw the extasct in another pa
per, the Oberlin Eye. we believe an
nounced our demise: but just look'at oul
reading matter and advertisements and
weep for our death if you can. It's the
Invest sort of death country paper eve,
experienced. Yes; just like our city OF
Colby. we are going it, and going it in a
substantial manner.
Marshall VIM. Yocum has resigned.
and c. NJ. Stewart has been appointed in
his place Mr.. Yocum has. during his
incumbency, made good official The
position is one in which it is difficult to
please everybody, and Marshall Yocum.
in the faithful performance of his duties,
could not expect to overcome this diff
Guilty. He has resigned for the purpose
of removing to Denver with his family,
where he will probably go sometime in
November.
Harry c. Root. of Atchison, represent
ing the Atchison Champion was in Col
by on Saturday last Mr. Root is an old
and well known newspaper man, and is
at present engaged in travelling through
northwest Kansas. and reporting its con-
dition, progress and prospects. We've
glad to meet Mr.. Root. and trust he may
visit this locality again. He left here for
AuStiS VI Suuudy IuOkuIuS, IutcHuIuS ~
make tour of Sherman, Cheyenne and
Rawlins counties ere returning eastward
PLEASANT SURPRIsE-Smith Lawrence,
having travelled down life's journey with
his better half to the 34th milestone, on
Oct. 10Th, his friends and neighbors gave
him and Mrs. Lawrence pleasant sur
prise on the evening of the anniversary
of their marriage by assembling at their
home near Quickville to celebrate that
occasion. The first animation given Mr..
and Mrs. Lawrence of any unusual &C.
currence was the various tintinnabula-
tons made by a charavari party. Equal
to the occasion, and undaunted by the
large numbers, Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence
invited the assembled party within, and
then followed feast of good things,
spread to the welcome guests. All pres
emit enjoyed the hour hugely, and de-
parted, wishing the hosts. in whose hon.